grace for Debian
----------------

This package does not support PDF output directly since the PDF library is not
free software. There is an easy workaround - just use the epstopdf script from
the texlive-font-utils package.

If you have installed the PDF library, you can modify the file debian/rules in
the source package (just remove --disable-pdfdrv) and recompile grace (debuild
-b).

Starting with version 5.1.22-7, the package automatically recognizes all
installed type1 fonts, and update its list automatically whenever new fonts
are installed.  This should give you far more options than just the default 14
fonts.

WARNING!

If you plan to exchange your files with other people (especially non Debian
users) restrict yourself to standard postscript fonts because grace is not able
to embed non standard fonts in its postscript output.  Please do not try to
report any bugs like missing text in your postscript files! Font embedding is
planned for grace version 5.2, but that release is on indefinite hold.

But there seems be a workaround using ghostscript:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=output.ps input.ps

That will embed all needed fonts in output.ps. In some cases the output file
may even be smaller than the original one. Please test that and report problems
and/or success.


The maintaince of the Debian packages is coordinated via salsa:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grace


Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>  Dec 17 2003
Ionut Georgescu <george@pks.mpg.de>  Sep 11 2005
Nicholas Breen <nbreen@debian.org>   Jun 06 2010
